For the last 24 hours this has been a matter of a great deal of thought for me.
Even has I finished work late last night, I was willing to give NSI the benefit
of the doubt and see what Chuck had to say today.
But today's posts show me exactly where NSI stands.
I've decided I am going to change a major position I have held as a result. A
position I held because I insisted on believing in the process, and in the
system, that when all was said and done we would have a fair and open
structure.
As such I criticized those who participated in activities that I felt were
outside the scope of the process. This included such activities as the Open
Root Server Confederation's "Staging Root Server."
In discussions with other Service Providers, and after some long and deep
thought on my own this morning, I have decided to change my views. And to
actively encourage others to do the same.
Beginning in just a few hours, DSo Internet will turn on a root server serving
the "root" zone as pulled from the ORSC staging root, which includes a number of
TLDs not currently in the NSI operated USG controlled root. Further we will be
strongly encouraging other Service Providers to do the same. I know of at least
4 providers who will be pointing their hints file to ORSC staging root servers.
I further encourage all TLD operators with TLDs in the ORSC root zone to secure
a second level domain that is equal to the tld they operate, perhaps in one of
the ccTLDs, to do as Iperdome does and offer a functional domain to those whose
providers will not point to an alternative root. I'd be happy to work with
them to research their options in this area. It is only with operational
facilities that this can be used to our mutual benefit (and indeed the benefit
of the entire community). I would seriously urge CORE to drop all their
differences with the ORSC and join these efforts as well.
It is time to work around the problem.
I have given this a lot of thought, and while I will not support the efforts of
the AURSC/IRSC, since I see it as nothing more than a power grab by one main
person and people who think it would be cool to be a part of it, I see the ORSC
effort as much more fair and open operation, with an open non-exclusionary
decision making model, etc. Even when I was a detractor of this operation, my
views and opinions were listened to and discussed as an equal participant.
DSo Internet fully supports the efforts of the ORSC staging root, and will be
encouraging its use wherever that may be possible. We will be working on a
position paper on this issue for posting on our website this week.
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William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
General Manager, DSo Internet Services
Date: 21-Mar-99
Time: 14:07:29
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